Oumarou Ganda

Oumarou Ganda was born in 1935 in Niamey. Enlisted at sixteen in the French expeditionary corps in Indochina, he spent two years there, came home without work and became a labourer in Abidjan, where Jean Rouch had him act in a film in which he improvised his own role. A technical assistant in a film club in Niamey, he was trained there in directing, camera and sound, moved behind the camera and became the first winner of the Étalon d'or de Yennenga, with his second film. He then made documentaries and died on 1 January 1981, of a heart condition.

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• CinemaCabascaboOumarou Ganda · 1969Cinema